The post got deleted later on, and sadly the Wayback machine was unable to capture all the comments:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230629152756/https://lemmy.world/post/440073
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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Not certain, but I'm guessing it's something to do with how archive.org archives. I'd say it probably captured some JavaScript which uses
window.location.host, which would resolve to the original (saylemmy.nz) on the original page butweb.archive.orgon the snapshot.You seem to be at least partially correct about JS being involved: the webpage source as downloaded from archive.org has a shitton of data in JS structures, while the actual final HTML of that element is nowhere to be found. Meaning the DOM is assembled from the JS data on the fly. Now, the page url, as I predicted, doesn't seem to figure in this, because the data itself contains numerous instances of 'web.archive.org' in it. I'm guessing that Archive's algorithm replaced the site domain to be prefixed with Archive's domain and went a bit overboard about it, which seems then to have confused Lemmy's JS into using the web.archive.org domain as the instance domain when rendering the page.
For better or worse, I don't use stimulants harder than tea, and amn't so young anymore as to reverse-engineer it further.
That's very doubtful, seeing as since the post might belong to any of the multitude of instances, the api must send the instance name in the response to the client. The client's host doesn't figure in that. Additionally, the screenshot looks like the default UI, whatever it's called (at least default for lemmy.world), and it doesn't show the instance domain for communities on the same instance (at least doesn't show currently).
But I'll look into the JS hypothesis later. Weird shit is afoot there.